When the men and women soldiers of the Bardelas battalion first came to the border, they lived in tents. Now they’ve settled in to a routine of a desert base, with caravans as offices and a fence to cordon off the area. Soldiers in uniform, M-16s slung over their shoulders are talking amid the heat of a pleasant October day. It’s fall on the Israel-Egyptian border and the local commander Lt.- Col. Shachar Nahmani is preparing to take his jeep out to visit some of soldiers in the field.